Vocabulary #9 Flashcards
Affront
A personally offensive act or word; deliberate act or display of disrespect; intentional slight; insult
Subjugate
To bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master. To make submissive or subservient; enslave.
Emancipate
To free from restraint, influence, or the like.
To free (a person) from bondage or slavery.
Auspicious
Promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable:
an auspicious occasion. Favored by fortune; prosperous; fortunate.
Ostentatious
Characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others:
Dappled
Having spots of a different shade, tone, or colour from the background
Subjective Idealism
A philosophy based on the premise that nothing exists except minds and spirits and their perceptions or ideas. A person experiences material things, but their existence is not independent of the perceiving mind; material things are thus mere perceptions.
Empiricism
The theory that all knowledge is based on experience derived from the senses.
Positivism
Positivism is an empiricist philosophical theory that holds that all genuine knowledge is either true by definition or positive—meaning facts derived by reason and logic from sensory experience. Other ways of knowing, such as theology, metaphysics, intuition, or introspection, are rejected or considered meaningless.
Neo-classicalism
The revival of a classical style or treatment in art, literature, architecture, or music.
Aristotelian
Aristotelianism is a philosophical tradition inspired by the work of Aristotle, usually characterised by deductive logic and an analytic inductive method in the study of natural philosophy and metaphysics.
Witless
Lacking wit or intelligence; stupid; foolish.
Unwitting
Not intentional or deliberate; inadvertent; accidental:
Fatalism
The doctrine that all events are subject to fate or inevitable predetermination.
Promulgation
The act of making a law or decree known, or formally putting it into effect, by public declaration:
